This tv adaptation of one of my favorite books differs from the plot in ways that didn’t always work, but overall it was wonderfully done, deep and heartfelt - just don’t go in expecting anything like the walking dead.
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This tv adaptation of one of my favorite books differs from the plot in ways that didn’t always work, but overall it was wonderfully done, deep and heartfelt - just don’t go in expecting anything like the walking dead.
i loved seeing the history play out on screen in oliver stone’s 3.5 hour nixon biopic, and the directorial choices and great character work kept it interesting throughout.
Everyone is asking “how is andor so good??” (because it really, truly, is) and i’m here to tell you that it’s the writing: good acting and production values are a dime a dozen but solid writing is a dying art.
Tom Robbins pretends to be Kurt Vonnegut and succeeds admirably.
The latest jordan peele flick is smart, utterly engrossing, and really, like most of his movies, best left undescribed.
Not to be confused with the terrible movie, this still-ongoing tv series is a well-made, fairly faithful, mostly engrossing adaptation of the famous series, at least for the first season.
I like the books a lot more and I think it's strange that amazon tried to mush up an ending into half a season, but this was pretty fun and effective space opera.
I love Adrian Tchaikovsky and this newer dimension-spanning epic has all of his fabulous upsides, like really cool ideas + technology, brain melting twists, and great characters that I really cared about - but unfortunately this book dragged quite a bit compared to some of his earlier work - I think it could've been 20% shorter.
If someone trained an AI on all the most popular frivolous tarantino-esque action comedy movies from the last decade it wouldn’t come close to this perfect representation of the form.
This short and sweet and only half-finished memoir of post world war 2 greenwich village gives a lovely, sentimental peek into the art and social mores of the era.
Not gonna say every episode is great, or that it ever really reaches the level of brilliance, but this 90s space opera is a solid gem of a show full of complex characters and wonderful moments.